upgrade only upgrades what you already have and won't delete any packages, dist-upgrade will add new packages that got added into the requirements and delete new conflicts. Use upgrade regularly, and use dist-upgrade only when you have a real need and are willing to deal with the consequences (one dist-upgrade I remember nuked most of my perl-based programs :( ).
On 20 Apr 2001, Jorge Santos wrote: >Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: >> > >> > I track unstable/sid and also routinely do "apt-get upgrade" with no >> > apparent problems. Every once in a while, I'll answer 'no' to doing the >> > upgrade and then do a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" and will have the exact >> > same packages to be updated. Other times it will want to update >> > different ones. >> > >> > I must admit that I'm confused... is there much reason to do "upgrade" >> > vs "dist-upgrade". I get the idea I should start using the latter just >> > about all the time. >> >> i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade. > >But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some >situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of >dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue? > >jorge santos > > > -- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!